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Although it is only 1/3 of the way through the month, so far our region has seen rainfall that is much above normal in many areas, including Georgia. The temperatures across the Southeast have also been above normal everywhere this month, even in the areas that were cloudy and cool from the persistent rain the…
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I subscribe to a number of weather blogs across the country, and found a couple of forecasts for the Southeast that do a good job of describing the expected conditions for this winter. Brad Panovich of WCNC in Charlotte provides a graphics-filled outlook that explains the impacts of El Niño on the winter weather patterns…
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The New Republic has a long article discussing the problems that Miami FL is already undergoing due to rising sea levels. The sea levels are rising from a combination of long-term trends, increased ocean temperatures, and melting ice caps. They are projected to rise in the future, although the rates at which the rise will…
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The latest 5-day QPF map shows that the next five days should be quite dry across most of the Southeast, bringing cheer to water-logged farmers in many parts of the region except southeast Georgia and Florida, where rainfall has been scarce. Early next week, after that respite, the rain is expected to make a comeback…
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-carrying cargo ship that went down in eastern Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 in a very strong mid-latitude cyclone with extremely high waves. Twenty-nine sailors went down with the ship that night. The cause of the wreck is still not completely…
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Last week NOAA released their annual evaluation of 28 separate weather disasters that occurred in 2014 along with a discussion of which if them were affected by trends linked to changing climate and other human factors like changes in land use. This evaluation is published by the American Meteorological Society and is based on evaluations…
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The Guardian posted a story today on the impacts of severe drought followed by flooding rain on supplies of cabbage in North Korea. The cabbage is fermented to make kimchi, a staple dish that gets many families through the winter. Prices of cabbage and other ingredients have gone up by 50 percent if they are…